Hi, Is there an absolute requirement to change the machine ID? I have gone ages at work with using the same images and not syspreping. I hate doing this in live environments, but you may be able to get away with it. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Sean Randall Sent: 06 January 2013 21:49 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Reset a Machine's SID without using sysprep Hi Ryan, I found that, whenever I ran Sysprep to get a new ID for the system, the windows audio service returned to its default state in 2008 R2 (which is disabled). I suppose mainly I wanted to work out a way to change the ID without doing much else so I wouldn't have to re-enable the service for every machine really. I understand the ID and the services have no relation, yet presumably because I'm returning the server to the out-of-the-box setup, the service gets disabled as that's how it started. Sean. On 06/01/2013, Ryan Shugart <rshugart@pcisys.net> wrote:
Sean: Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but the SSID and audio services have nothing to do with each other. I believe there is a sysprep command that does nothing but reset the SSID, but I don't remember it off the top of my head. The software we use to spon up new VMs automatically does change the SSID, but on Windows Server 2008 and newer, I don't think the need to change the SSID is as big as before. I saw an article once where the author put forth the argument that changing the SSID was a bad idea, but I personally don't agree, at the worst it doesn't hurt anything. Ryan
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Sean Randall Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 4:13 PM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Reset a Machine's SID without using sysprep
Hi all,
I'm joining this list as I've recently started my undergraduate degree with a course on Microsoft Server Technologies at the Open University. In practical terms, this means I learn about configuring Windows Server 2008 network infrastructure, Active Directory etc, and I'm hoping to pick a few of your brains on issues as they relate to accessibility.
First issue I have, I've got a bunch of virtual machines good to go but they're all clones. Is there a way of resetting their SIDs without using sysprep, so I don't have to go about re-enabling windows audio and so forth? NewSID seems to no longer be available. DO I even need to bother doing the SID reset thing? I don't know the entire scope of the university's course but am struggling to find a scenario where not doing this would cause a problem.
Any help and advice gratefully received and, I hope to hang around on the list for quite some time. One day, maybe I'll be able to be of use to someone as new as I am!
Sean.
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